
Infrastructure Engineer – Virtualisation, Contract
Gigged.AI
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sheffield • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £550 per day
About the role
- Build, operate, and maintain enterprise virtualisation platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi, Hyper-V).
- Provide day‑2 operational support: monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity optimisation.
- Execute patching, upgrades, firmware updates, and hardware lifecycle activities.
- Ensure high availability, clustering, failover, and recovery mechanisms.
- Own platform lifecycle processes: build standards, upgrades, decommissioning, technical refreshes.
- Conduct capacity planning and forecasting to meet business demand.
- Identify and remediate single points of failure; support disaster recovery testing.
- Develop and maintain automation for provisioning and configuration (scripting/Infrastructure as Code).
- Standardise virtualisation builds, templates, and configurations.
- Act as escalation point for complex incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions.
- Support controlled change execution following ITIL processes.
- Ensure platforms meet security standards, hardening guidelines, and regulatory requirements.
- Work closely with storage, network, OS, cloud, and application teams. Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- Experience with enterprise virtualisation (VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter or equivalent).
- Proven infrastructure engineering or platform operations experience in enterprise environments.
- Hands-on with upgrades, patching, performance tuning, troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of server hardware, storage, and networking related to virtualisation.
- ITIL-aligned operational experience.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
- Experience in financial services or regulated industries (desirable).
- Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell, Python) and Infrastructure-as-Code (desirable).
- Knowledge of hybrid integration between virtualisation, cloud, and containers (desirable).
- Disaster recovery/business continuity experience (desirable).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
VMware vSphereESXiHyper-VscriptingInfrastructure as Codeperformance tuningtroubleshootingcapacity optimisationdisaster recoveryroot cause analysis
Soft Skills
analytical skillsdocumentation skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationescalation management